Jay Bird (aBoE)

Chapter 4: Omen of Death

The night air was crisp and damp, with a wind that carried a chill that sunk through his skin and settled into his very bones. The soft sand of Magnolia's beach was cold beneath his feet without the rays of the daylight sun, and icy water nipped at his toes from splashing waves that moved in the that chilling calmness before a great storm.

The angel stared out to sea, eyes scanning the distant stars searching for the answer to an unknown call. Something foreboding had lured him out here, something that pulled at his chest and drew him near like a sirens song. He hadn't reached it yet, wondering if he should answer the call or leave it to die in its own echos.

Truth be told Natsu thought it'd best to leave, to turn his back now and return from whence he came. Yet he could not. The alluring yet dangerous pull was something that beckoned his very wings to follow and try as he might-

Fwosh

-he couldn't stop them.

With the powerful flap of a jays wings the boy was no longer to be found standing on the beach of Magnolia, rather flying high above the waters of Earthlands ocean. Wind tore at his skin like thousands shards of broken glass, his feathers bristled against the cold, and his eyes watered from the force. The boy was unsure of where he was going but his wings knew the way and they had never been wrong before, leaving him with no reason to doubt that this was the direction of the call.

As the dragon slayer made his way further and further out to sea the weather got worse and worse. The waves beneath him clashed against each other as though they were living creatures in battle for dominance, the wind howled against his ears and felt so sharp that he thought for sure he'd have cuts along his arms and face, and the cold air was strong and bitter with the smell of rain.

That call, that feeling as though a rope had tied itself around his heart kept pulling and pulling at him to go even further, that forced him through weather that threaten to knock him out of the very sky and send him drowning in murky water below, did not cease.

Not until he saw it.

Natsu didn't know what to make of it.

In all of his strange and long life never had seen anything like this before.

Beneath the ocean waves, lying threateningly just below the surface was a dark and murky figure. It's body was that of a snake, long and thick, stretching form horizon to horizon decorated in bleak grey scales that carried the stench of flesh eroded away by the sea. The creatures head was dragon like in nature, obscured by the ocean waves and only viable at just the right angel.

When ever the beast hide breached the surface the weather around Natsu seemed to worsen. The wind became so strong that he nearly was knocked out the air, having to use some of his magic to steady himself rather than fly naturally and this time he was sure it had cut him.

Natsu had seen a sea serpent before...but this was different. This thing-this monster held a presence that made him feel as though everything in the world was wrong, as if everyone he had ever loved was about to turn against him.

The beast's dragon like the head suddenly broke through the surface with a cry that would make any mortal man cower in fear. The wind pick up so violently that the young angel was swept into the air current and nearly tossed like a rag doll into the ocean. It took every muscle and every feather just to right himself again.

Natsu breathed heavily as an unsettling fear crawled over him, ravishing itself on any courage he had. It was a feeling he had only known twice in his life, a type of fear that was normally followed with death.

A small and sudden tap touched his shoulder, so weak compared to the wind that he had nearly missed it all together, yet present enough for him to nearly leap out of his skin at the unexpected presences.